Hi, Why does everyone refuse to use push_subq hint? It's worked for me, but, it seems, no one else ever gives it a try. :-) HTH Regards, Mike Thomas On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 02:13:58 -0800, Marc Slemko <identd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok, I've searched around a bunch. Found a bunch of threads on > metalink with no real answer other than hacks such as creating a view > on the remote server and selecting from that, which are an inane > solution. > ... > The particulars of the query really shouldn't matter... as long as > every table involved is on B. The DRIVING_SITE hint doesn't do it. > Using a collocated inline views (as the Oracle docs call it) doesn't > do it. Using NO_MERGE doesn't seem to do it. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l